Gaza’s Government Media Office said on Wednesday that 10 Palestinians have been killed and 62 injured in the last two days while trying to reach an aid distribution point west of Rafah in the south of the besieged enclave under the US and Israeli mechanism.
United States President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered US firms that offer software used to design semiconductors to stop selling their services to Chinese groups, the Financial Times has reported, citing people familiar with the move.Electronic design automation software makers, which include Cadence, Synopsys and Siemens EDA, were told via letters from the US Commerce Department to stop supplying their tech, the report, which was published on Wednesday, said.
A spokesperson for the Commerce Department declined to comment on the letters but said it is reviewing exports of strategic significance to China, while noting that, “in some cases, Commerce has suspended existing export licenses or imposed additional license requirements while the review is pending”.Shares of Cadence, which declined to comment, closed down by 10.7 percent, while shares of Synopsys fell by 9.6 percent.Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi said in a call with analysts that the company had not received a letter, nor had it heard from the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry (BIS) and Security, which enforces export controls.
“We are aware of the reporting and speculations, but Synopsys has not received a notice from BIS. So, our guidance that we are reiterating for the full year, reflects our current understanding of BIS export restrictions as well as our expectations for year-over-year decline in China. We have not received a letter,” Ghazi said.After the market closed, Synopsys reaffirmed its revenue forecast for 2025. Its shares and those of Cadence bounced back 3.5 percent in trading after the close.
Siemens EDA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The software of these firms is used to design both high-end processors as well as simpler products.The 2020 death of the iconic football great shook Argentina and fans around the world.
The homicide case against Diego Maradona’s medical team has been declared a mistrial, lawyers for the defendants said, in a case that transfixed Argentina following the football great and national hero’s 2020 death.The date for the new trial was not initially announced on Thursday and new judges were not yet nominated. The decision came after
in the case, Judge Julieta Makintach, resigned on Tuesday in the face of allegations of an ethical breach.Maradona, who almost single-handedly led the Argentine team to World Cup victory in 1986 in Mexico, died from heart failure while he was recovering from surgery for a haematoma that formed between his skull and brain. He was 60.